About the Filmmaker

Sarah Moshman

Sarah Moshman is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and TEDx speaker whose work has been featured on Upworthy, Marie Claire, CNN and Good Morning America.

After directing two short documentaries about female empowerment in young women, Girls Rock! Chicago (2010) and Growing Up Strong: Girls on the Run (2012), she set out to direct her first feature documentary The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things (2014), which has been screened over 700 times around the US and around the world in schools, groups, organizations and corporations, starting conversations about gender equality. Sarah is dedicated to telling stories that uplift, inform and inspire as well as showcase strong female role models on-screen.